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Al-Hijr 15:4 وما اهلكنا من قرية الا ولها كتاب معلوم ٤

15:4
وَمَآ
أَهۡلَكۡنَا
مِن
قَرۡيَةٍ
إِلَّا
وَلَهَا
كِتَابٞ
مَّعۡلُومٞ
٤
And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it.
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

Every Township has its allotted Time

Allah is informing us that He never destroys a township until He has established evidences for it and its allotted time has ended. When the time for a nation's destruction has come, He never delays it, and He never moves its appointed time forward. This was a mess

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Every Township has its allotted Time

Allah is informing us that He never destroys a township until He has established evidences for it and its allotted

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Chapter 15, Page 262, Juz 14

2. It may be that those who disbelieve wish ardently that they were Muslims. 3. Let them eat and enjoy life, and let (false) hope beguile them. They will come to know! 4. And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it. 5. No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind. 6. And they say: O thou unto whom the Reminder is revealed, lo! thou art indeed a madman! 7. Why bringest thou not angels unto us, if thou art of the truthful? 8. We send not down the angels save with the Fact, and in that case (the disbelievers) would not be tolerated. 9. Lo! We, even We, reveal the Reminder, and lo! We verily are its Guardian. 10. We verily sent (messengers) before thee among the factions of the men of old. 11. And never came there unto them a messenger but they did mock him. 12. Thus do We make it traverse the hearts of the guilty: 13. They believe not therein, though the example of the men of old hath gone before. 14. And even if We opened unto them a gate of heaven and they kept mounting through it, 15. They would say: Our sight is wrong - nay, but we are folk bewitched.

- M. Pickthall

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